Justin Mabry's Phantom sculpt is fantastic! Personally I think it's more screen accurate than the classic DP version. I dig the green paint up in honor of FMF's '66 Yearbook cover. I do own the flesh colored version but I'm not sure I ever posted pictures of it. I see they still haven't addressed the space where the hair is parted. To big of a gap but that's a minor issue that doesn't ruin a great mask!

Oh man, what a tough choice between green or flesh color. Perhaps I should justdo as any decent collector would: when in doubt, get them both.'Great seeing that DonCon memorabilia, Doh. I never got one of those hand puppetsbut herewith present my modest collection of other mementos from the show ~

The one I still look at most often is the DonCon pictorial souvenir ~

I'm not sure who published it but these were offered some months after the show ~

It's only twenty pages long, with hardly any text, but who needs text with such awesome imagery?

There's Bob Short sculpting the ANCIENT EVIL mask ~

'The back cover, showing the big stage set. I wonder if fans will be discussing DonCon infifty years time with the same fondness we regard Unimart Monster Daze now ...

Everybody should have at least one Frank in their collection, right Doh? Glad he went to a good home.

Man, I've never seen that Don Con book before! I'd really like to have one. Maskahuna, if you can remember who published it I'd appreciate knowing. It must say somewhere in the book, no? Maybe you could send me a close up of that bar code on the back. It may lead me to the right place to score one.

Edit: I checked with our buddy Mr. Lambert and apparently only a few of these were made special by Mr. Roebuck for people who contributed to Don-Con.

'Great vid, fun cutaways, jupiter2. After being featured in vintage magazine ads for years, it wassad to see the classic Ghoul demoted to those nameless catalogue assortments later on.In the 1960s, we had a variety store called Newberry's that wheeled out big wire bins full ofTopstone masks every Halloween. I have dim memories of owning an original Ghoul back thenbut have no photos to prove it. They were the only rubber masks that kids like us could afford.

I wasn't to score another until 2004 through the generosity of fellow collector Evil Wilhelm ~

I later had it repainted by Deathstalker Studios to exhibit at conventions ~